Virtually unexpectedly, HBO Max has announced ‘How to fuck it all up‘, his new original Spanish series. A six-episode youth drama that the platform will premiere next summer. Along with the announcement we already have a first teaser trailer.
Created by beginners George Olias (‘El Cid’) and Paul Sanhermelandoand scripted and directed by the former, the series follows a group of high school friends who, faced with the cancellation of their end-of-year trip, decide to hit the road aimlessly.
The young cast consists of Naira Lleo (‘Mom or Dad’), Mauve Candle (‘The kingdom), Gabriel Guevara (skam), Oscar Ortuno (’30 Coins’), Nadia Al Saidi (‘The hunt. Tramuntana’) and Sergi Mendez (‘Red Sky’). According to its creators, the series wants to explore the search for freedom in youth:
«For us, the series delves into the feeling of the lack of freedom and its search within youth. A feeling that we all have (to a greater or lesser extent), and that we experience in each of the phases of life in a different way. The viewer can expect a truthful, faithful and naturalistic portrait of the youth we represent.»
Official synopsis of ‘How to send everything to hell’
Alba, a young woman who has a hard time adjusting and who has only been in her new school for a short time, learns some horrible news: the end-of-year trip is cancelled. Her plans to run away from home collapse. By chance, she discovers that a group of classmates have a perfect plan: make her parents believe that the trip is still going, steal the van of one of their brother’s and go on the road for three weeks. The plan is to have no plan, to go aimlessly, improvising. There are only a few rules: you can’t post anything on social media, you have to always be on the move, and most importantly, there’s no turning back.